I'm 20!

Hello Everyone!

Thank you for the birthday wishes! I had a great memorable birthday. I can't believe that I am 20 years old. I am so old!

So last week was the craziest, busiest, and the most stressful week of my whole mission so far. I lot happened and a lot of it is just simple things that just add up over time. SO I will start with Monday. On Monday we had p~day and I was looking out the window and it was in the evening time and I was just pondering about my mission so far and how hard it has been ~ but also how grateful I am for the mission experience. I have learned so much and I have changed so much. The mission so far as been such a blessing to me and my life. I don't want to leave and it is going to be harder to leave in a year from now. I will be excited to be going home but I am going to miss the mission life. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!

Tuesday I was working on my training that I was asked to prepare for our district meeting on Friday. I was training on "Teach People, Not Lessons." I was getting stressed over it because I had high expectations and it was taking longer than I wanted to plan it. So I said a prayer and it all came into place. (I don't know if I told you but our car is named Felicia and on Tuesday we ran into a Felicia. After our interaction with her I said, "We met Felicia in the flesh!") It was hilarious! Then at Ana's lesson she asked us a weird question about a scripture and we had no clue how to explain it and so after the lesson we asked the Elders and they had no clue either, so they asked their recent convert who was a pastor and who grew up to hate the Mormons. So that was cool. Then we jokingly asked if he could come to a lesson and they gave us his number and we contacted him and he said that he is on board to come to our lesson on Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will get to that later...

Anyway, Wednesday was Mom's birthday.  I am sending a picture for you mom. 

Happy Birthday Mommy!

So today was great (hint: sarcasm). We got stuck in the snow for real this time in the middle of nowhere!! I am telling you, nowhere!!!!!!!!!!!! I pushed with all of my might and we were stuck. A very "Christlike" man drove down the rode and didn't even look at us and kept driving.  His house was right next to our sticking situation and he went inside and then came back out and drove away. So we were stuck in the snow for an hour and a half. We called the Elders because everyone in the ward was at work or they didn't have a truck or they didn't drive their truck to work they rode their bike instead. SO we called the Elders and told them about our situation and they got someone in their ward with a truck and all three of them came out to get us. It was hilarious because even their truck was getting stuck. They pulled our car out and we trudged behind it. It was a sight to see.

Also on Wednesday I got my package from you! That was really fast! 

Then on Friday I got Grandpa and Grandma's package. 

So thank you!

Grandma Schmidt sent a puzzle for my birthday.
It came on a day we were snowed in!

On Thursday we got a call from the zone leaders about the missionary broadcast for all the missions in the world and for zone conference which are both happening this week. They asked us who they need to call and we didn't know ??? and then they gave us the responsibility to have it all planned.  So we need to reserve the building and get it set up for the broadcast and make sure that we are having dinner. So yeah ~ Thursday was stressful since we didn't know who to call. Then I made cookie dough and that night I made the cake that you gave me for district meeting the next day.

On Friday I didn't have to train because we were running out of time. But the cake was good! I also had a headache all day but all is well in the land of Spokane. WE had our lesson with Ana and with the recent convert who used to be a pastor. It was good. His story is amazing. My district is going to hear about it next week so I will email you and tell you all about it when I have all the details.

Sunday was fun. We had a nice dinner with the Spencer family in our ward.
They found out it was my birthday during our visit and they put candles in my pizzookie "cake" and sang Happy Birthday to me!

I had a good birthday day!

Birthday package from home!

On Monday we had a blitz with our district. We blitzed the Cheney 1st Ward sister's area. We went to see a potential investigator who was Camile and who was possibly Jamaican. When we knocked on the door it wasn't Camile who was possibly from Jamaica. ???  It wasn't a girl. It was a boy who was wearing only a shiny yellow pair of short shorts. it was extremely awkward and he was standing sideways. I thought he was going to start doing the thriller but fortunately he didn't.  Then I dissed a man, by accident. He opened his door and he was wearing scrubs and I asked if he was a nurse and he said no, with a gruff voice, he has a sunburn and that he is a police officer. So that was fun...

Then today our washer died on our last load so we had to hand wash the darks. My hands are SO red and it hurts to type this out. SO that was an adventure.

Hand Washing Darks!

I love you all and miss you! The church is true! 

Toodaloo!!

Sister Schmidt